iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD

Gabriel Ambuehl gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch
Thu Jun 5 10:12:39 PDT 2003


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Hello Andy,

Thursday, June 5, 2003, 6:25:42 PM, you wrote:

> I am not completely up on the current Mosix.  I read the paper a few
> years ago when it
> could only do 32 nodes without specific modifications.

I think it's mostly process migration combined with a scheduler. It
still doesn't support threads of one process on different machines
IIRC. Then again, the performance to sync such would be prohibitively
anyway.

> What I would like to reach is VMS like process migration.  For all I
> know it could be
> the same thing.   I wish I had to time search this.  But suffice
that I
> saw VaxClusters
> as a very beautiful thing and that was where I started from.

Never used VMS. I hear it's (was?) a good OS and in many ways superior
to UNIX but very expensive.







Best regards,
 Gabriel

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